The FBI Hazardous Devices School is a training center that trains all of the

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public safety bomb technicians at the federal, state and local level. It is part of the FBI's

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. The school is located on a 455-acre campus at Redstone Arsenal in

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. The campus contains classrooms, explosive ranges, and mock villages that include a train station, apartment complexes, a movie theater, and a strip mall. The school opened in 1971, and was jointly run by the FBI and the

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for 45 years until 2016, when the FBI took primary responsibility.

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